The poetical works, by Scott, Walter, 1771-1832

Table of Contents: “…From the monatery -- Ne sit ancillae -- 'Merrily swim we' -- The monk's warning -- The white lady sings -- To the white lady -- To Halbert -- Sir Piercie Shafton sings -- The white lady chants or recites -- Border March -- The white lady to Mary Avenel -- The white lady to Edward -- The white lady's farewell -- XII. …”


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They saw it happen; an anthology of eye-witnesses' accounts of events in British history, 1485-1688.

Table of Contents: “…Glastonbury -- How the Lord Cromwell helped Archbishop Cranmer's secretary -- The debasement of the coinage, 1540 -- Archbishop Cranmer -- The Bible in English -- A description of the Scots Army after the Battle of Pinkie Cleugh -- King Edward VI -- Mary Tudor -- The marriage of Queen Mary and Philip II -- Lady Jane Grey -- The execution of Lady Jane Grey -- The end of the Lady Jane Dudley, Daughter of the Duke of Suffolk -- The burning of Archbishop Cranmer -- Calais in 1497 -- The loss of Calais -- The loss of Guisnes, Following on the Loss of Calais -- Queen Elizabeth I -- An embassy to Queen Elizabeth I -- The Murder of Rizzio -- The rebellion of the northern earls -- Elizabeth I opens parliament -- The execution of Mary, Queen of Scots -- Twelfth Night, January 6th 1600 (O.S.) -- The true manner of the taking of Edmund Campion and his associates -- The torturing of Father Gerard -- A Meeting with Sir Francis Drake at sea -- An Englishman and the Spanish Inquisition in the Canaries -- The Spanish Armada -- Hans Buttber's account of the Armada -- The discovery of tobacco -- Sir Walter Ralegh -- A German traveller in England in 1602 -- James the Sixth of Scotland and First of England -- James I at the Hampton Court Conference, 1604 -- Gunpowder Plot -- The first Turkish ambassador to England -- The arrival of Frederick, Elector Palatine -- The marriage of Princess Elizabeth and Frederick, Elector Palatine -- The voyage of the Mayflower -- Charles I -- The murder of the Duke of Buckingham -- Rubens on England -- The First Bishop's War -- Sir Thomas Wentworth, Earl of Strafford -- The Passing of the Grand Remonstrance -- Charles I's attempt to arrest the five members -- On the brink of civil war, 1642 -- The opening of the civil war, 1642 -- The skirmish at Powick bridge -- The battle of Edgehill -- The battle of Marston Moor -- The civil war day by day -- The execution of Charles I -- Poverty in exile -- The execution of Montrose -- James Graham, First Marquis of Montrose -- Oliver Cromwell -- Cromwell at the Storming of Drogheda -- Cromwell in Scotland, the battle of Dunbar -- Cromwell after the battle of Worcester -- King Charles II -- The restoration. …”


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The Jane Austen companion

Table of Contents: “…David Grey -- Jane Austen in London / Anne-Marie Edwards -- Love and marriage / Juliet McMaster -- Manners and society / Rachel Trickett -- Medicine / David Waldron Smithers -- Military (Army and Navy) / J. …”


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Encounters with Euclid : how an ancient Greek geometry text shaped the world by Wardhaugh, Benjamin, 1979-

Table of Contents: “…Alexandria: the geometer and the king -- Elephantine: pot shards -- Hypsicles: the fourteenth book -- Theon of Alexandria: editing the Elements -- Stephanos the scribe: Euclid in Byzantium -- Al-Hajjaj: Euclid in Baghdad -- Adelard: the Latin Euclid -- Erhard Ratdolt: printing the Elements -- Marget Seymer her hand: owning the Elements -- Edward Bernard: Minerva in Oxford -- Part two. Sage. …”


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55 short stories from the New Yorker, 1940-1950.

Table of Contents: “…Inflexible logic / Russell Maloney -- The falling leaves / Frances Gray Patton -- My da / Frank O'Connor -- The four freedoms / Edward Newhouse -- A view of Exmoor / Sylvia Townsend Warner -- Children are bored on Sunday / Jean Stafford -- Mr. …”


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The record of singing. Volume 5, 1953-2007 : from the LP to the digital era.

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55 short stories from the New Yorker.

Table of Contents: “…/ Mary McCarthy -- The decision / John O'Hara -- Her bed is India / Christine Weston -- Inflexible logic / Russell Maloney -- The falling leaves / Frances Gray Patton -- My da / Frank O'Connor -- The four freedoms / Edward Newhouse -- A view of Exmoor / Sylvia Townsend Warner -- Children are bored on Sunday / Jean Stafford -- Mr. …”


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The literatures of colonial America : an anthology

Table of Contents: “…Of the river of the Yasous. Of the customs, manners and religion of the Natchez / Pierre Francois-Xavier de Charlevoix -- from Letter XXXI: Description of the capital of Louisiana / Pierre Francois-Xavier de Charlevoix -- from Letter XXXII: Reflections on the grants / Pierre Francois-Xavier de Charlevoix -- from The Annals of the Hotel-Dieu, Quebec / Marie-Andree Duplessis de Sainte-Helene --The image of hell / Marie-Andree Duplessis de Sainte-Helene -- from The correspondence of Madame Begon, 1748-1753 / Elisabeth Begon -- A journey from Patapsko to Annapolis, April 4, 1730 / Richard Lewis -- from Images of Divine Things / Jonathan Edwards -- "Apostrophe to Sarah Pierpont" / Jonathan Edwards -- Personal narrative / Jonathan Edwards -- from Some Account of the Fore Part of the Life of Elizabeth Ashbridge ... / Elizabeth Ashbridge -- El Lazarillo: A Guide for Inexperience Travelers between Buenos Aires and Lima (c. 1775) / Alonso Carrio de la Vandera -- Prologue and dedication to those treated herein / Alonso Carrio de la Vandera -- from Chapter XVIII: The indolence of the Indians. …”


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The Great travelers : a collection of firsthand narratives of wayfarers, wanderers, and explorers in all parts of the world from 450 B.C. to the present

Table of Contents: “…Goldsborough Bruff -- New York streetcars and western manners (1861-62) / Anthony Trollope -- A stagecoach on the prairie and the camel that ate an overcoat (1861-65) / Mark Twain -- Saratoga: "The democratization of elegance" (1870-82) / Henry James -- Lady in the wild west (1873) / Isabella Bird Bishop -- Skyscrapers, stockyards and a football game at Harvard (1893-94) / Paul Bourget -- Florida (1946-52) / Alistair Cooke -- POLAR PLACES -- Eskimo interlude (1819-27) / William Edward Parry -- North of Siberia (1878-79) / Nils Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld -- Wanderer in Greenland (1907-34) / Peter Freuchen -- Doing as the Eskimos do (1908-12) / Vilhjalmur Stefansson -- Fortitude (1910-12) / Robert Flacon Scott -- Life in an igloo (1934-49) / Roger P. …”


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Bibliography of American literature by Blanck, Jacob, 1906-1974

Table of Contents: “…Mitchell (Silas Weir Mitchell; Edward Kearsley) -- William Vaughn Stoy Moody -- Clement Clarke Moore (A citizen of New York; Columella; A landholder; Philalethes) -- George Pope Morris -- Sarah Wentworth Apthorp Morton (Philenia, a lady of Boston) -- John Lothrop Motley -- Ellen Louise Chandler Moulton (Ellen Louise, a lady) -- John Muir -- Mary Noailles Murfree (Charles Egbert Craddock; R. …”


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The Actor's scenebook : scenes and monologues from contemporary plays

Table of Contents: “…Agnes of God / John Pielmeir -- Crimes of the heart / Beth Henley -- The gingerbread lady / Neil Simon -- Uncommon women and others / Wendy Wasserstein -- On Golden Pond / Ernest Thompson -- Album / David Rimmer -- A coupla white chicks sitting around talking / John Ford Noonan -- Lunch hour / Jean Kerr -- Table manners (from The Norman conquests) / Alan Ayckbourn -- The great nebula in Orion / Lanford Wilson -- A delicate balance / Edward Albee -- Laundry and bourbon / James McLure -- Once a Catholic / Mary O'Malley -- My sister Eileen / Joseph A. …”


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The Oxford book of English prose

Table of Contents: “…Cat overboard -- John Fisher: the death of the Lady Margaret -- Edward Fitzgerald: The boat race. …”


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The pageant of English prose : being five hundred passages by three hundred and twenty-five authors

Table of Contents: “…A fair and happy milkmaid -- Herbert, Edward. A knightly obligation -- Hales, John. How to read history.…”


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New American poetry. by Monaco, Richard

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The Oxford book of satirical verse

Table of Contents: “…. -- The Vicar of Bray -- The Poet's Prayer -- Namby-Pamby -- The Wife of Bath her Prologue, from Chaucer -- The Rape of the Lock -- An Essay on Criticism -- An Epistle to Dr Arbuthnot -- Epistle to a Lady: Of the Characters of Women -- Epistle to Richard Boyle, Earl of Burlington -- The First Satire of the Second Book of Horace Imitated -- The Second Satire of the First Book of Horace -- Epilogue to the Satires -- The Dunciad -- The Bastard -- The Progress of a Divine -- The Authors of the Town -- The Modern Fine Gentleman -- An Epistle to Lord Lovelace -- The Modern Fine Lady -- Dr Johnson -- London -- The Vanity of Human Wishes.…”


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Seventeenth-century prose and poetry,

Table of Contents: “…Ben Johnson. To my noble lady, the Lady Cor. To Dr. Duppa, L.B., of Chichester, His Highness' tutor at St. …”


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A comprehensive anthology of American poetry

Table of Contents: “…Eliot -- Portrait of a lady / T. S. Eliot -- Burnt Norton / T. S. Eliot -- Ash Wednesday / T. …”


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Irish writing in the twentieth century : a reader

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Personal narrative of a pilgrimage to al-Madinah & Meccah by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir, 1821-1890

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The Random House book of poetry for children

Table of Contents: “…Jack Prelutsky -- Don't worry if your job is small / Anonymous -- Number nine, Penwiper mews / Edward Gorey -- Tender-heartedness / Harry Graham -- Jimmy Jet and his TV set / Shel Silverstein -- Young lady of Lynn / Anonymous -- Herbert Glerbett / Jack Prelutsky.…”


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